Lost Voyage (2001)

Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

It's another ghost ship, a la Mary Celeste type mystery. The Corona Queen turns up after disappearing 30 years earlier. Quickly, a bunch of people that can't wait to get killed by ghosts form a rag-tag "research" group and sneak aboard to film the vessel and its secrets (they're not supposed to be there of course-big surprise).One (Judd Nelson) is the son of of two passengers who vanished along with the ship; he's now an expert on Bermuda Triangle phenomena. There's a TV filming crew of 3, and a ship salvage team of 3, led by a guy who talks slow and creepily (Lance Henrikson). It's obvious who's gonna get it, and in which order. The movie does find some Twilight Zone type twists as the story progresses (like inner past guilt haunting the person), so the deaths are predicated on something, at least. (Somewhat better than one of those movies where victims scream "Oh my Gawd!" as they take turns getting axed.)Nelson and Henrikson aren't bad, but neither is at his best here. Nelson's always bulging his eyes out; it almost looks like they'll burst out of his head at any moment (he could also use a better hair cut). The balance of the group are all unknowns who make good targets for the paranormal entities. The spooks are designed pretty well, and the movie wisely doesn't show them until the time is right.Routine stuff, but delivered reasonably well.

I wish someone would make a Bermuda triangle movie that gave an explanation of the phenomenon. It doesn't have to be true - just make sense. This silly show doesn't even try. A ship lost 25 years ago in the BT comes back and a group of people take a chopper out to the ship to investigate. Then all sorts of strange things happen but none of it makes any sense. I busted out laughing when one of the women is standing on the deck when, for no reason whatsoever, the floor gives way and she falls thru to the next level and meets her long dead mother!!! Janet Gunn and Scarlett Chorvat are the best part of this flik. Two really cute babes. Judd Nelson has a big part and wins the young Rob Reiner look-alike award.

Hollywood is building up a nice cache of "derelict ship" movies: "The Black Hole", "Ghost Ship", "Event Horizon", and even episodes of "The X Files" and "Night Gallery" have built stories around this theme. This isn't even the first movie to center its plot on the infamous Bermuda Triangle. That honor may belong to "Satan's Triangle", a 1975 ABC "movie of the week" which, for all its tiny budget (and ship!), is still probably the best of the genre.This film most resembles "Ghost Ship", which came out a year later. If I'm not mistaken, this is an original film out of the Sci Fi Channel's stable of made-for-TV thrillers. That by itself is hardly a ringing endorsement, but this one is actually moderately interesting.The TV budget shows in the CG effects which, while not horrible, are noticeable for what they are. (The flying ghosts are hardly convincing.) Sci-fi fans will like the cast, which features Lance Henriksen ("Millenium"), who by now can do this kind of story in his sleep; and sharp-eyed "X Files" fans will recognize Mark Sheppard, who played gregarious pyromaniac Cecil L'Ively in the episode "Fire".Where this movie succeeds is in establishing a spooky atmosphere. You know characters are going to be dying one by one, so the real suspense comes in the times in-between the deaths. Where the movie fails, unfortunately, is in the storytelling. Though the overall structure is good, a few things beg explaining. SPOILER WARNING -- SPOILER WARNING -- SPOILER WARNINGWithout getting into too much detail, let's just say that one of the characters first warns the others about impending doom, and then leads another character to his death. Not exactly consistent, huh? Nor is it explained why the phantoms that appear are people from the characters' pasts...nor why, indeed, the ship suddenly re-appears from the Bermuda Triangle, only to be headed right back into it. In a more minor vein, one might carp on the fact that the ghosts do away with the first few victims via physical means, i.e, "accidents", whereas some of the last characters to go are outright dissolved by the resident spookies. END SPOILER WARNING -- END SPOILER WARNING -- END SPOILER WARNINGAside from the aforementioned questionable plot points, the ending is a bit weak. The script really has all the earmarks of something that needed a few more weeks of polishing before being put before the cameras. Still, you can make an argument for this film based on atmosphere. It's paced nicely, the camera work is effective, the music appropriately creepy, and the acting is decent.These factors overcome the flaws enough to make it a spooky, watchable "popcorn" film...good for a rental or a deep-discount buy.

well, rent this film only after you've seen every other horror film in your video store. even then, consider expanding your tastes to as many other genres as you can before returning to lost voyage. still tempted? how about picking up a nice book, or going out with your friends, or perhaps simply hammering your genitals to a board with an old nail?why do i do this to myself? why did i think that anything good could come out of a made-for-the-tube film about a ghost ship starring judd "washed-up-since-1985" nelson? you know why? session 9. i blame session 9. every now and then, after sifting through the ever-thinning ranks of my olde video store i decide to rent a movie that screams "complete loser" in hopes that it turns out to be somewhere between "mildly loserish" and "ok". and sometimes, just sometimes, one of these low expectation picks turns out to be a bit of a winner, like session 9. well, the makers of this film (and my video store) can thank david caruso's scrawny white ass, because session 9 restored my faith that not all obscure low-budget horror films are stupid and brainless despite all the alarm bells that sound when you read the box.unfortunately lost voyage IS stupid and brainless, a cheeseball excuse for a bunch of roughly sketched characters to run around the corridors of a ship accompanied by a relentless horror movie soundtrack. sure, it's got its jump-out-at-ya moments, but so does my fridge after i forget about a half-eaten ham-n-cheese sandwich that's been sitting in the back for a week or three.it's just that the plot is so lazy. there is so much that could have been done with the bermuda triangle yet they way lamed out. um, so, mr. writer-directory-guy, what's your theory on the triangle? "well, it's a gateway to HELL!" so, where have all the people on the ship gone... "well, they've been sucked into HELL"! so, um, why has the ship reappeared? "well, there was this storm, just like when it disappeared, so it came back... back from HELL"! alright, but why is the ship trying to off all these weak-ass characters now it's returned? "well, it's collected all this evil energy because, well because, well, of course it wants to off everybody it's been in HELL"!damn i wish i could get a few paycheques for coming up with brilliant plotting like that.ok, vented enough. goodnight.